root beer follow up

the one root beer that i wanted to have at my root beer party, but couldn’t find ANYWHERE was hires (the world’s oldest root beer, and a pivotal beverage of my childhood). according to the internet (a very reliable source) it was bought by the dr. pepper people. i can’t find any distribution maps but i can tell you, it is NOT distributed in my tri-state area, and trust me, i looked everywhere.

anyone know where to gets?

update

from notentirely

dear ragbag,

things do not look good for our hero. try the link below for Galco’s here in SoCal. they’re the soda specialty store locally that pretty much carries everything one could want. unfortunately, a seach on their site showed Hires as being listed, but ‘unavailable’. perhaps you could write them and ask.

http://www.sodapopstop.com/products/search/search.cfm

best, notentirely

ug! i knew that it was bad, but not this bad. i figured that some lucky chumps that don’t live in the northeastern u.s. were shotgunning hires 24/7. i guess it ain’t so. if anyone wants to start a private equity fund with me and buy the hires brand from the clutches of dr. pepper, just say the word (the word is doctor-pepper-tastes-nasty).